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Bird fossil found in China may be the missing link
"(Gansus is very close to a modern bird and) helps fill in the big gap between clearly non-modern birds and the explosion of early birds that marked the Cretaceous period, the final era of the Dinosaur Age."- Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania anatomy professor/research coordinator
Gansu Province, China - Geologists working in an excavation site in Gansu province, some 2,000 kilometers from Beijing in China, have discovered well-preserved fossils of birds resembling waterfowl, believed to be 110 million years old.
... early birds like Archaeopteryx looked like the dinosaurs, which most paleontologists believe birds descended from. Gansus, however, possessed skeletal features resembling that of modern birds.
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